Word: trujillos
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...juntas which seized power in these two countries were uncommonly thin, even by diplomatic standards. In Honduras, a U.S.-trained pilot who headed the coup claimed to replace a Communist - infiltrated government. In the Dominican Republic, army officers who first protected and then assassinated former dictator Rafael Trujillo complained of inefficiency and high unemployment when they threw democratically elected Juan Bosch out. They added that President Bosch's regime had been riddled with Castro sympathizers...
...turning point in Bosch's popularity, Darrow said, came when he attempted to expropriate the property of former dictator Rafael Trujillo without recourse to the courts, which were controlled by the opposition party. It was inevitable from the time of an attempted coup in July that Bosch would fall, claimed Darrow...
Jose Figueres, visiting professor of Government, who directs the seminars, explained that the problem of the military has been worse in the Dominican Republic than elsewhere in the hemisphere. "The Trujillo armed forces were personal butchers. They helped lapse the Dominican Republic into a state of mental sickness," Figueres said...
...pointed out that even the positive achievements of the Trujillo dictatorship were attacked by the rioting which followed his death. 'It was hard to start anything after 31 years of Trujillo," he observed...
Among the most powerful of the men who brought him down were two old hands at conspiracy: General Antonio Imbert Barreras, 42, and General Luis Amiama Tio, 49, sole survivors of the plotters who killed Dictator Trujillo. Under Bosch, Imbert controlled the police. He made no secret that he put more faith in bullets than ballots. "This coun try doesn't need elections," he once said. "One party wins. The others won't respect it. There'll be hell...